Othniel_Dossevi

Othniel Dossevi

Othniel Dossevi

Togolese footballer

Othniel Dossevi (born 13 January 1947) is a Togolese former professional footballer who played as a winger and forward.[1]

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Career

Dossevi started playing football in France for Tours in 1963.[2] He was the first African to play for Paris Saint-Germain, [3] and also scored the first PSG goal ever scored at the Parc des Princes, in a match against Red Star on 10 November 1973.[2] Dossevi played for PSG for three seasons, and later played for Paris FC between 1975 and 1977.[3] From 1977 to 1978, he was a player at Senegalese club Jeanne d'Arc, but from 1978 to 1980, he was executive director at the club.[4] In 1980, Dossevi returned to France to play amateur football with Pithiviers and Avion before retiring in 1982.[4]

Dossevi never played for the Togo national team due to his opposition to Togolese dictator Gnassingbé Eyadéma.[5]

Personal life

Dossevi was born in Lomé, French Togoland,[6] He moved to Tours, France in 1963,[2] and later became a naturalized French citizen.[6] After retiring from football, he worked as a French, Greek, Latin, and literature teacher at the Lycée Camille-Jullian [fr] in Bordeaux.[4][7] Dossevi's brother Pierre-Antoine is a retired footballer and his nephews Thomas and Mathieu, are also footballers. Othniel's children, Damiel and Narayane, are also athletes.[5]

On 21 July 2020, before the kick-off of a friendly match between PSG and Celtic at the Parc des Princes, Dossevi was handed a 2020–21 Paris Saint-Germain home shirt with his name on it, and took part in PSG TV's pre-match build-up. He also gave the ceremonial kick-off of the match. The club had organized this for the occasion of the 50 years of PSG, and Dossevi was honoured for being the first African player and the first goal-scorer of the club at the Parc des Princes.[8]

References

  1. [1]
    "Othniel DOSSEVI". Histoire du #PSG (in French). Retrieved 9 September 2020.
  2. [2]
    "Le premier buteur du PSG au Parc des Princes est…un agrégé de lettres". Europe 1 (in French). 11 August 2020. Retrieved 1 March 2021.
  3. [3]
    De Macedo, Sylvie (23 November 2018). "Othniel Dossevi : «Si le PSG existe, c'est un peu grâce à moi»" [Othniel Dossevi: "If PSG exists, it's a bit thanks to me"]. Le Parisien (in French). Retrieved 9 September 2020.
  4. [4]
    "Othniel DOSSEVI". PSG70 (in French). Retrieved 1 April 2021.
  5. [5]
    "Othniel Dossevi : « Le PSG était pour moi un job d'étudiant »" [Othniel Dossevi: "PSG was a student job for me"]. PSG70 (in French). Retrieved 9 September 2020.
  6. [6]
    Hautbois, Yohann (2020). Les 100 choses que tout fan du PSG doit savoir avant de mourir (in French). Talent Sport. ISBN 9782378150976.
  7. [7]
    "Les hommes du premier match du PSG au Parc des Princes". Le Parisien (in French). 9 September 2016. Retrieved 1 March 2021.
  8. [8]
    "Othniel Dossevi at the Parc des Princes". Paris Saint-Germain. 21 July 2020. Retrieved 1 April 2021.
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